If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all . . . are essential to the well-being of a family.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.